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The Second Empire
by Guedalla, Philip
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton. 1946. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Leather bound in school prize binding with gilt crest to face and gilt title to spine. Marbled edges and endpapers. Some very slight rubbing to spine edges but still a very handsome copy. Presentation plate to front pastedown. Black and white frontispiece. Part of Hodder's Uniform Editions of Guedalla's Works. 362 pages. A history of France's Second Empire - Bonapartism, the Prince, the President, the Emperor . 1st thus. Hardback.
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- Bookseller
- Adelaide Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIB287842
- Title
- The Second Empire
- Author
- Guedalla, Philip
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used -
- Edition
- 1st thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1946
- Bookseller catalogs
- history-europe;
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About Adelaide Booksellers
Antiquarian and Secondhand Bookseller. Member ANZAAB.Founded in 1979, Adelaide Booksellers is one of Adelaide's oldest and most respected secondhand and antiquarian booksellers. Members of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers [ANZAAB]. Has Adelaide's most comprehensive selection of book on military history. Also a very good range of Australiana books, Childrens's Books, Art and History books.Something for every budget. Now primarily an online/telephone seller but open to the public by arrangement.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Rubbing
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- 1st Thus
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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